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To apply for a trademark or servicemark, select your form from the table heading below. Once you select the form, you will be directed to our Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS) where you can begin filing your application.

All online trademark formsAlready know which forms you need? Go to our index of all TEAS forms.Scroll over the category headings to view a list of all forms within a specific category. Click the category headings to access the page to select a specific form.

1. Initial application forms
To apply for a trademark/servicemark on the Principal Register, a trademark/servicemark on the Supplemental Register, and other types of marks (certification, collective, collective membership)

2.Response formsTo respond to: a Law Office examining attorney letter (an "Office action") (a non-final or final action, including a suspension inquiry/letter of suspension or a request to submit a "substitute form" where the wrong form type was initially filed); an Intent-to-Use Unit (ITU) Office action; a Post-Registration Division Office action; a Petitions Office letter

3. Intent-to-use (ITU) formsTo file a Statement of Use (SOU) and convert an ITU application to actual use after a notice of allowance (NOA) issues; or to file an extension request after a NOA issues; or to file an Amendment to Allege Use (AAU) and convert an ITU application to actual use before a NOA issues; or to respond to an Intent-to-Use Unit Office action. Note: To file a new application having an “intent-to-use” filing basis, you must access the form at #1., above.

5.Correspondence and attorney/domestic representative formsTo file: a change of correspondence address, a change of owner's address, or a change of domestic representative's address; a withdrawal of attorney or domestic representative; a revocation/appointment of attorney/domestic representative; a request to replace attorney of record with another already-appointed attorney. Note: For additional information on use of the various online TEAS forms for the withdrawal, removal, replacement, or appointment of an attorney of record, see the Practice Tip.

6.Petition formsTo file: a petition to revive an abandoned application; a petition to amend the basis of an application after publication; a petition to the Director under Trademark Rules 2.146 and 2.148; a letter of protest and similar matters; a response to a Petitions Office letter

7. Miscellaneous formsTo file: a voluntary amendment prior to publication that is not in response to USPTO Office action/Letter; a request that the application examination process be terminated (an "express abandonment"); a request to divide an application NOT filed with an allegation of use (to file WITH an allegation of use, see the overall category "Intent-to-use (ITU) forms," above)

8. Registration maintenance/renewal/correction formsTo make required maintenance filings between the 5th and 6th year after the registration date (Section 8) and between the 9th and 10th year after the registration date (Section 8 & 9); to claim that a mark is now incontestable (Section 15); to request amendment or correction of a registration certificate (Section 7); to surrender a registration; to request to divide a registration; to file a Section 12(c) affidavit; to submit the required maintenance filings under Section 71 for a registered extension of protection (Madrid Protocol); to respond to a Post-Registration Division Office action

9. Assignment formsTo file: assignments; change of name; other conveyances of title

System availability: Check current server status and planned outages before beginning the filing process. Eastern Time controls for purposes of determining whether your TEAS filing was timely filed. Any submission that arrives as of 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time will be given that day's filing date regardless of the USPTO's regular business hours. If you have a filing due today and the document cannot be filed via TEAS, you must use an alternative method of filing to ensure that the document is timely received by the USPTO.

Upload schedule: Most filings made through TEAS are uploaded into the USPTO's Trademark Status and Document Retrieval (TSDR) system within 4-5 business days. If that amount of time has passed and your filing is still not appearing, please e-mail TSDR@uspto.gov; however, if the problem specifically relates to an electronic filing issue, use TEAS@uspto.gov.

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After you submit an online form, read this page to learn about your duty to check your application or registration status, how to correct filing errors, and requirements for electronic correspondence for TEAS RF and TEAS Plus applicants.